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Ousted Honduran president seeks to return after OAS suspension
TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya prepared to fly back home on Sunday, setting the stage for a possible confrontation as the interim government that has defied international pressure said it would not let him enter the country. Honduras' interim government, slapped with suspension from the Organisation of American States over its refusal to reinstate Zelaya, said it would refuse Zelaya permission to land.
Crash probe locates doomed Yemeni flight recorders
PARIS - French investigators said on Sunday they had detected the signal from the flight recorders from a Yemeni jet that crashed last week with more than 150 people on board. The news came after the Yemeni transport ministry said on Saturday that search crews had located a large piece of debris from the jet, which crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros islands on June 30.
Earn our trust or go, Afghan villagers tell Marines
SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan - The mullah's message was blunt. We don't trust you and if you don't earn our trust, our first meeting will be our last. With that, he stood abruptly and walked out of his first "shura," or council meeting, with U.S. Marines.
Ex-bodyguard's opposition seen winning Bulgarian poll
SOFIA - Bulgaria's opposition centre-right GERB party was set to win most seats in Sunday's parliamentary election, increasing the prospect of reforms to combat widespread corruption. Angry about a painful recession and the government's failure to end a climate of impunity for politicians and crime bosses, Bulgarians punished the ruling Socialists, who looked set to lose around half their seats.
Iranian clerical group says vote result "invalid"
TEHRAN - A pro-reform Iranian clerical group said on Sunday the outcome of last month's presidential vote was "invalid," even though Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld the result. In a sign of a deepening rift among Shi'ite clerics, the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers also called for the release of Iranians arrested in protests after the hardline president was declared winner of the June 12 vote.
Three killed in riot in China's Xinjiang region
BEIJING - Three people were killed in rioting that erupted in China's restive far west Xinjiang region Sunday, when locals burnt vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, the state news agency reported. "The regional government did not say how many people were involved in the unrest, but said they illegally gathered in several downtown places and engaged in beating, smashing, looting and burning," said the official Xinhua news agency.
Pakistani jets pound Taliban on Afghan border
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest Sunday, killing at least five insurgents, residents said, as militants distributed leaflets warning area tribesmen not to rise up against them. Fighting has intensified in northwest Pakistan over the past two months, since the military went on the offensive to push back an expanding militant movement that had raised fears for the stability of the nuclear-armed U.S. ally.
Obama to travel to Moscow for "reset" summit
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama heads to Moscow on Sunday promising a far-reaching effort to "reset" U.S.-Russian relations that hit a post-Cold War low under the Bush administration. Obama is looking for progress on the outlines of a new nuclear arms pact and improved cooperation in the Afghan war effort, but deep divisions remain over U.S. missile defence, NATO expansion and the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
Nigeria militants attack Shell
LAGOS , again dashing hopes that the amnesty offer would buy a period of calm.
Irish team in Sudan to help free kidnapped aid staff
KHARTOUM - Irish diplomats and negotiators flew in to Khartoum on Sunday to help in efforts to free two female aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. The two women from Irish aid group GOAL, one Ugandan and one Irish, were abducted from their compound in the north Darfur town of Kutum late on Friday -- the third time foreign humanitarian workers have been seized in Darfur in four months.